Today, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” will be profiling repeated failed political candidate from North Carolina, Ada Fisher, who unsuccessfully ran for office to be a U.S. Senator in 2002, finishing a distant fourth in a primary to former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, but crying foul to complain that she wasn’t allowed to participate in television forums. In 2004 and 2006 she attempted to challenge Congressman Mel Watt in North Carolina’s 12th District, losing handily both times. Fisher has some extreme ideas, like adopting a flat tax, and runs to the right of even former President Bush on immigration, whose guest worker program, she classified as “amnesty”. Fisher has a few typical conservative positions like how she is opposed to gay marriage. Her argument, though, seems limited to the fact that gays should have to wait, because she’s not married yet, either:
”Marriage ought to be between one man and one woman at one time, and I’m still waiting.”
Fisher’s tantrum after losing to Elizabeth Dole was not a one-off, but somewhat of a pattern of behavior, as she also threw a fit when a candidate other than the one she supported for the Chairman of the Republican National Committee won back in 2009. About six weeks into Michael Steele being elected, Fisher was trying to drum up support to get his resignation, in effect asking for the election to be conducted again until a result she liked occurred. The same thing happened in the 2015 GOP Primary race in Mississippi for Thad Cochran’s U.S. Senate seat, when she wanted Reince Priebus to investigate how Chris McDaniel could have lost to Cochran, volunteering herself to look into “racism” that led to Cochran’s victory. (And if you read the CSGOPOTD profile of McDaniel, that is a laughably ironic statement.)
Fisher’s notorious about being impulsively accusatory to politicians on both sides of the aisle, and if you need another example, there was the time in 2010 when she e-mailed the media a link to the following Youtube video she saw, that admits to being made of “snippets” of President Obama, and seemed generally conflicted if it was legitimate, or made of out of context sound bites when her message asked:
A sucker is born every minute, they say, and that day, Ada Fisher emerged from the sucker birth canal.
That wasn’t Fisher’s only time taking shots at President Obama, by any stretch. In 2008, while campaigning for Sen. John McCain during his presidential run, Fisher tried saying that Obama should never be president because he admitted to using marijuana in his book, and that should disqualify him from the office. The media asked her how President Clinton could have held office, after his own discussions about marijuana, and all of the discussions about President Bush’s previous cocaine use, and she actually tried saying that it’s okay for a presidential candidate to have used drugs… so long as they lied about it and never admitted it.
Now, since CSGOPOTD tries keeping things relevant and its profiles feature people who have run for, or held office within the past five years, you might notice Fisher hasn’t run for office since 2008. And that’s true, sort of. We also profile people in that time frame who have helped write the GOP Party Platform, and wouldn’t you know it, Ada Fisher was on the RNC Platform committee in 2012.
We’ll have to see if her name is on the latest edition of the party platform in July, where we can see the GOP’s latest manifesto against gays, women, minorities, and the poor. This year, they will most likely add in extensive commentary about non-Christians, to be sure.
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